This is my first posting and it took some consideration to decide what to upload as my first photo. I took this image in Thailand several years ago with my first digital SLR. The camera and lens struggled with the evening’s very low light conditions which is not immediately evident now in the modified photograph. I have brightened and enhanced the image to hide the original limited image quality. While the final image as seen here is not true to the image captured by the camera, I love this image perhaps more because it captures how I remember the moment in time.

I modify a lot of my photographs partly because I don’t always completely capture my vision for the image, but also because what I remember in my mind is often more surreal than the image that the digital sensor captures. Because of this I try not to simply refer to my work as photography. Instead I think of it more as “photographic art”. I know many debate the use of the word art with photography and the expression “photographic art” is not well defined. I don’t mean to suggest what I do is art as in “fine art” but rather it is my interpretation of the world through my eyes and my camera. It is “the way I see it”.